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Saturday, August 15, 2015

Bout of Books 14 Starting Line

Bout of Books 14 is here! Check out the Bout of Books blog to see the ins and outs of what to expect from this read-a-thon. Reminders for the daily challenges (if you wish to participate), Twitter chats, etc will be posted to keep you in the loop. Now, let's get our read on!

Time Devoted to Reading
I will be dedicating the entire week to reading. As usual, I'm also working full time and writing a couple of books. So...yeah.

My Goals

Read

Have fun!

Don't stress

Books to Read

any books off my review request list

Fallout Girl by Amanda Close - READ and review written!

Alpha by S.M. Reine - READ and review written!

Pas by S.M. Reine

Anything but Broken by Joelle Knox - READ and review written!

Mixed Signals by Alyssa Cole

anything else that strikes my fancy

What the Queen Wills by A.J. Tipton - READ

Hell's Belles by Alison Perry - READ and review written!

The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan - READ

Waistcoats & Weaponry by Gail Carriger - READ

Among Galactic Ruins by Anna Hackett - READ and review written!

Updates

8/17Number of books I’ve read today: 1Total number of books I’ve read: 1Books read: Fallout GirlToday #insixwords: BOW DOWN BEFORE YOUR CHAT LEADER!Things I learned on Twitter: Y'all are REALLY into the idea of #boutofbooks merchandise. Like, REALLY into it. I honestly can't think of even starting something like that until after Bout of Books is over and Amanda and I can do some research. In the meantime, CHAAAAAATTTTTTTT! Chat 'til your fingers fall off and you feel light-headed. GOOD TIMES, MAN. Good times.Final Tally: One over-sexed, hard hitting lady by the name of Kelly Killjoy. BOOM, MOTHERFUCKERS!

8/19Number of books I’ve read today: 3Total number of books I’ve read: 5Books read: What the Queen Wills, Hell's Belles, Anything but BrokenToday #insixwords: I was convinced today was Thursday. (No, seriously. All day. I even told myself it WASN'T Thursday and I STILL kept thinking it was. Wednesday, you can suck it. Seriously.)Things I learned on Twitter: I fixed my website! Well, Amanda helped. And the tech guy who worked on the support ticket I submitted. But whatever. I FIXED MY WEBSITE! Other than that, I wasn't online all that much today. Because, you know, I had to work. BOO.Final Tally: One sexy threesome, one mysterious girl, and one book so good it made me cry.

8/20Number of books I’ve read today: 1Total number of books I’ve read: 6Books read: The Suffragette ScandalToday #insixwords: Is it the weekend yet? Please?Things I learned on Twitter: Drop off circles at schools are the first level of hell. Amanda likes things hard. I like to write! YAY!Final Tally: One hard-hitting go-getter who gets her man.

8/21Number of books I’ve read today: Total number of books I’ve read: Books read: Today #insixwords: Things I learned on Twitter: Final Tally:
Today was a no-reading day due to work. Boo.

8/22Number of books I’ve read today: 1Total number of books I’ve read: 7Books read: Waistcoats & WeaponryToday #insixwords: Awesome chat, everything else blurred by.Things I learned on Twitter: This is the point of the readathon where I start lagging on the tweeting and stuff. In fact, I can't even tell you what I did today. NO CLUE. It's all a blur.Final Tally: One sly student.

8/23Number of books I’ve read today: 1Total number of books I’ve read: 8Books read: Among Galactic RuinsToday #insixwords: Today was my super lazy day.Things I learned on Twitter: Today was my do-nothing day. I mean, I wrote some reviews and watched a few movies (as an aside, I like the City of Bones movie, but EVERYONE in that movie is weird looking. What's that about?) and was basically a lazy slug. AS ONE CAN BE.Final Tally: One adventurous couple.

Final Thoughts: As always, I had a great time reading and chatting and being a general pain in the ass. Hope to see everybody for Bout of Books FIFTEEN coming in January!